West Side-Clark Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places: August 3,
2010
The West Side-Clark Addition Historic
District is located immediately west of the original townsite of
Mesa, Arizona. The general boundaries are west of
Country Club to Date and from the north side of 2nd Place
to the south side of Pepper Place. The district
consists of four contributing single-family residential subdivisions
platted between 1930 and 1947, and a single post-historic,
subdivision platted in 1973. The district takes
its name from the West Side Addition, the earliest subdivision
platted in the neighborhood, and form the Clark family that was
associated with the establishment of three of the four subdivisions.
The West Side-Clark Addition Historic
District is eligible for listing on the National Register at a local
level under Criterion “A” for its association with community
planning and development in Mesa. The West Side-Clark Addition Historic District is an early example of the process
of suburbanization that changed Mesa from an early twentieth-century
agricultural settlement to one of Arizona';s larger, sprawling
twenty-first-century cities.
Specific development trends in these four
historic subdivisions govern the appearance of the West Side-Clark
Addition Historic District. The pre-World War II
subdivisions in the northern part of the district contain the oldest
houses. These represent the first westward leap
beyond the edge of the Mesa townsite. The two
later subdivisions, platted after the end of World War II,
represents the era of rapid construction and population expansion
that characterized Mesa's west side after the War.
Click here to view the Historic Resource Survey and National
Register Nomination final report.
Historic
Preservation home
Planning home
Office Hours:
7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., M - TH
Closed Fridays & Holidays
Phone:
(480) 644-4273
Location:
55 N. Center St.
Mesa, AZ 85201
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1466
Mesa, AZ 85211